Harry Cochrane

Jobbing man of letters, mostly @theflorentine but sometimes @TheTLS. Librettist to @eparkmusic's music.

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

I'm lucky enough to have a poem - well, a translation of a poem - in this week's @TheTLS. Do have a read.

https://t.co/Clg3sorU19

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'An ex-fearmonger himself, Frank is under no illusions about how this culture works – 'One must live in a state of outrage. Not to do so was outrageous' – and yet his instinctive aversion to the displaced family has shown him to be anything but immune.'

https://t.co/SwrARxCG1U

[Catharine Morris @CatharineMorris]

"The hospitalization scene is truly unsettling. When Paterson says 'at the centre of us is not a self, but a clean hole', you know he means it";

@hjccochrane has reviewed Don Paterson's memoir 'Toy Fights' for @TheTLS:

https://t.co/6vEqVY0X3P

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'The 'half serious' is key: Longley’s poems are the better for irony, self-doubt and second guesses.' (@hjccochrane)

https://t.co/MzJKbKrh63

[George Berridge @George_Berridge]

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Carol Tavris on Darwinian feminism; @TomFStevenson on geopolitics; @TobyLichtig on Compartment No. 6; Edmund Gordon on the new Jennifer Egan; @hjccochrane on Primo Levi; @rinireg on borders - and more

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

Notes for @eparkmusic from Primo Levi.

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

@dshipley1341 @eparkmusic Thanks Dan! To change the subject from the literary to the mathematical, are you still able to produce the 'proof' that 2=1? I'll explain why I ask in due course.

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

https://t.co/0LDwfQkQXx

A trip down memory lane (aka Grey Street) with @eparkmusic and @dshipley1341

[Camille Ralphs @CamilleRalphs_]

'Hill clearly meant to stick in the throat of an all-consuming, all-commodifying age'. @hjccochrane reflects on Geoffrey Hill's work and legacy, 5 years on from Hill's death on 30 June 2016, in @TheTLS:
https://t.co/FqWn0lasyU

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

@eparkmusic Oh really? You know that Mrs C plays them?

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

@chernydar @eparkmusic and I read it just after leaving high school, because, to quote from Blackadder, we were 'being intellectual'. But yes, concentration strayed, as I remember.

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

@chernydar My old English teacher gave me the 24-disc box set with the words 'It's really a book to be listened to'. Especially when read by Jim Norton from Father Ted.

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

A little appreciation of one of my favourite poets. With cameos from @TATFS and @theodorahawlin
https://t.co/cNDxw7GcE8

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

Ever wondered how to grow your own poem? Me too. @KateClanchy1 has some novel tips:

https://t.co/lnu2IDT9yE

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

@aoifekennan @eparkmusic @AlexandraWhitty @dshipley1341 Aw, thanks for purchasing, Aoife! I had no idea. Hope you get at least some of your money's worth.

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

@dshipley1341 @aoifekennan @eparkmusic @AlexandraWhitty Dan, if I ever deserve a biographer, it shall be you.

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

@dshipley1341 @aoifekennan @eparkmusic Three, Dan. Always intended to write more, but I only had a handful of friends to sonneteer.

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

Daria Chernysheva (@chernydar)'s writing always gives me the chills. Be unsettled by a recent story of hers, published in the inaugural issue of @tethersendmag

https://t.co/jluQKdthzO

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

The brother writes about books. You should read him and them. Unless, of course, he doesn't think much of them. But you should still read him.

https://t.co/9GbmSvAJVh

[Harry Cochrane @hjccochrane]

Dear Twitter, I've a book outcoming:
Fifty pages for the thumbing.
Spread the word across the regions;
Recommend it to the legions
Of followers you haven't brought me,
And others, hopefully, will court me,
For covers by my colleague Leo
Would make of anyone Orfeo.

@TheFlorentine